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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. BuddyHelp was launched in this proto-Internet environment and was immediately used by businesses to provide hands-on technical support.

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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

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In fairness, they also attempted to belatedly reposition the company as a smartphone competitor, abandoning their email-centric devices upon which they had created a multi-billion dollar enterprise. dotbomb crash, we abandoned the technical support marketplace and began licensing our screen-sharing technology.

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In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we encouraged usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. Anyone, including well-healed, large companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free.